• Question: Hi Duncan...What things do you look at every day? please write back, no one has x x

    Asked by larahj1 to Duncan, Kiran, Paul, Sarah, Sharon on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Duncan Murdock

      Duncan Murdock answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I’m sorry you haven’t had any other replies, I’m sure they’ll get round to you soon – we have been receiving lots of great questions.

      My days vary quite a lot. Some days I’ll be picking out fossils, I do this by looking down a microscope at a tray full of sand-like stuff, and every now and then I find a fossil and pick it up with a fine paintbrush. Other days I’ll be working on pulling apart 3d models of my fossils on a computer to look at all the layers that build up their shells. Then on the less fun days I’ll be reading other people’s research or writing up my own. It’s great having such a varied job!

      Thanks, Duncan

    • Photo: Paul Stevenson

      Paul Stevenson answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I guess this question is not for me – though it came on my list 🙂 Here’s a quick answer anyway. I use a computer (or more often a big cluster of computers) to calculate how the nuclei (a tiny speck at the centre of every atom) interact with each other, and compare the results with my colleagues, who go to laboratories all over the world to repeat my simulations in real life using particle accelerators (like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN)

    • Photo: Kiran Meekings

      Kiran Meekings answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      Oh no larah – you sent to me again!!!! I’ll answer anyway!!! I look at clinical trial results every day to try and find new cancer drugs to cure people…

    • Photo: Sarah Mount

      Sarah Mount answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      Hi Larah, think you’ve asked the wrong person!

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